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July 4th, 1835. 



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PROCEEDINGS 



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PHILADELPHIA ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. 



The Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society was organ- 
ized on the 30th day of April, 1834, and held its first annual 
meeting on the 4th of July following, at which time an Ad- 
dress was delivered hy Charles Gilpin, Esq. The Society 
having existed but a short time, no report was then submitted 
by the Board of'^Ianagers. 

On the 4th of July, 1835, the Society met in the Musical 
Fund Hall; John Sharp, Jr. one of Vice-Presidents in the 
Chair. 

The Annual Report was read by Arnold Buffum, and on 
motion, unanimously accepted. Thomas Shipley then offered 
the following resolution: 

Whereas, The only true bond of union in human society is 
that of mutual protection in their natural and indefeasible 
rights; yet when, by a long course of oppression, one part of 
the inhabitants of a country have been deprived of their 
dearest privileges, Christianity requires that the oppressed 
refrain from physical resistance, and look only for redress to a 
peaceable amendment of the laws: 

Resolved, As the sense of this Society, that it is the bovinden duty of 
every good citizen of the United States to aid, as far as in him lies, to pro- 
cure the amenthnent of whatever, in either the Constitution or Laws, up- 
holds the monstrous oppression of Slavery and the Domestic Slave trade. 

Charles Gilpin, Esq. rose to second the resolution and 
having made some appropriate remarks upon it, it was put to 
vote and adopted without a dissenting voice. 

Dr. Edwin P. Atlee then delivered an oration explana- 
tory of the principles of abolitionists, showing the beneficial 
efi'ects which their practical application would have upon the 
happiness and prosperity of our country. 

The Society tiien adjourned to meet at Clarkson Hall, at 8 
o'clock in the evening. 



Eight o'clock, evening. The Society met pursuant to 
adjournment, John Sharp, Jr. in the Chair. 
The Treasurer's Report was read, and Dr. E. P. Atlee 



and DiLLWYN Pari^ish were appointed to audit his accounts 
and report to the next meeting. 

On motion, Resolved that the Society now proceed to an 
election of Officers for the ensuing year, hy ballot. 

The Chairman appointed Peter Thomas and Benjamin S. 
Jones as tellers, when the Society proceeded to an election; 
the result of which was announced by the Chair as follows: 

president, 

DAVID PAUL BROWN. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

JOSEPH M. TRUMAN, and JAMES MOTT. 

THOMAS SHIPLEY, Sec^y of Foreign Correspondence. 
EDWIN P. ATLEE, Sec'y of Domestic ^Correspondence. 
BENJAMIN S. JONES, Recording Secretary. 

TREASURER, 

JOHN SHARP. 

MANAGERS, 

ARNOLD BUFFUM, HENRY GREW, 

JAMES FORTEN, FRED'K A. HINTON, 

DILLWYN PARRISH, WM. A. GARRIGUES, 

CHARLES GILPIN, DANIEL NEAL. 

The following resolution, offered by Arnold Buffum, was 
referred to the next stated meeting. 

Resolved, That the Constitution of the Society be so amended, that the 
annual meetings be held in future, on the first 4th day in the 10th month, 
instead of the 4th day of the 7th month, as at present provided. 

Then adjourned. 



REPORT. 



DuuiNG the past year, we have prepared an address to the 
public, explanatory of the principles of our Association, of 
which, we published 1500 copies for distribution among our 
fellow citizens. 

We have also procured and distributed a considerable num- 
ber of other publications, designed to promote the cause of 
universal freedom among men. 

The quarterly meetings of the Society have been regularly 
held ; besides which, public conversational meetings have 
been held weekly, under the direction of the Board, during 
the last six months; in the exercises of which, many of our 
members as well as a considerable number of other citizens 
and strangers have participated. We have been favoured with 
visits, from our distinguished friends, George Thompson, from 
England, James G. Birncy, from Kentucky, and Henry B. 
Stanton, from Ohio; whose public labours in this city, we 
have reason to believe, were productive of much good. 

Several of our members have visited neighbouring towns 
and villages, and delivered addresses which have been well 
received by the people; some have also been engaged in dis- 
cussions in this city, which have resulted in considerable 
accession to our numbers. — Much more might have been done 
in the same way, but our opponents, seemingly aware that 
the result of investigation could only be favourable to our 
cause, have declined most of the discussions which we have 
sought with them; and we now believe, that there are none 
among their numerous champions, who would venture to meet 
our striplings in intellectual combat. Should we, however, 
be mistaken on this point, we here distinctly announce, that 
we are ever ready to engage in a fair and honourable discus- 
sion with their ablest men; and we respectfully invite such of 
our opponents as have confidence in the integrity of their own 
cause, to meet us in the field of public debate. We give this 
invitation, because we believe it is due to an intelligent com- 



munity, to give them an opportunity, to hear the whole 
ground of controversy, fairly canvassed by advocates of the 
opposing schemes, in relation to the rights and vi^elfare of 
our coloured fellow-countrymen ; and we believe this cannot 
be so effectually done in any other way, as by bringing the 
opponents face to face, before the public. We rely not upon 
superiority of talents, nor upon the influence of great names 
and titles of distinction, for the success of our cause, but upon 
the immutable principles in which it is founded. Our motto 
is, "Great is truth, and it will prevail;" and we believe that 
the more our principles are investigated, the more speedy will 
be their universal prevalence. 

Within the past year, very great has been the accession to 
the number of the avowed advocates of universal and imme- 
diate emancipation. Twelve months ago our opponents seemed 
to suppose, that we were so few and so feeble, that we could 
be driven from the controversy by mobocratic intimidation ; the 
experiment, however, taught them that abolitionists were not 
the men that were to be frightened from their purpose; and 
the measures which were resorted to, under this delusive ex- 
pectation, only tended to increase and confirm the number of 
our friends, and to stamp with disgrace the instigators of vio- 
lence. The plan of coercion which was attempted at Lane 
Seminary, in Ohio, instead of sealing the lips of ninety aboli- 
tionists of the genuine stamp, only served to send them abroad 
to preach the glad tidings of deliverance to the captive, and 
determined the friends of human liberty to build up the 
Oberlin Institute in the wilderness of the west, where no gag 
will be imposed upon those who plead the cause of the suffer- 
ing and the dumb. We hail the discussion which has been 
had within the past year, in several of the most respectable 
ecclesiastical bodies, as the omen of a better feeling and a bet- 
ter state of things in the Christian community at large; and we 
would especially refer to the powerful appeal to the Presby- 
terian Church, b}'- Stuart, from Illinois, delivered 

in their General Assembly, lately convened at Pittsburg. 

We would also express our gratitude to the Supreme Law- 
giver of the Universe, that several of our most estimable states- 
men, came forward at the last session of Congress, as the fear- 
less advocates of the abolition of slavery ia the district of 



Columbia. We commend this subject to all the friends of our 
country's prosperity and honour, hoping that petitions for the 
removal of this foul disgrace, will receive the signatures of 
millions of our countrymen, for the next session of the 
national legislature. 

The Board of Managers, in submitting their Report on this 
anniversary of their country's independence, regard the occa- 
sion as peculiarly calculated to impress every honest American 
bosom, with feelings of humiliation, in contemplating the 
glaring inconsistency between our professions as a great and 
magnanimous nation, and our practice as a slave-holding 
people. 

Fifty-nine years ago, one of the most patriotic and intelli- 
gent deliberative assemblies, that was ever convened on the 
face of the earth, assembled in this city, representing the then 
British colonies in North America, published to the world 
their political creed, containing the important declaration, that 
" all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator 
with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, 
and the pursuit of happiness." For the support of these 
principles, they *' solemnly pledged to each other, their lives, 
their fortunes and their sacred honour." The American people 
approved the declaration, and arming themselves in its defence, 
after a long and bloody conflict, obtained its recognition by the 
civilized powers of the world. Here then was set up an inde- 
pendent republican government, resting on the legitimate 
principle of the consent of the governed, and all the nations of 
the earth were invited to throw off the yoke of despotism, 
and to unite with us in sustaining the cause of universal liberty 
and the rights of man. Annually on the return of this anni- 
versary, our orators paint in glowing colours the blessings of 
freedom, hailing liberty as the bright genius, which has led 
our country on to prosperity and renown, and given her a rank 
among the greatest and best of the nations of the earth; and 
seeming to forget the victims of oppression in our own land, 
they exultingly proclaim, that " on whatever part of God's 
creation a human form pines under chains, there Americans 
drop their tears."* They tell us of the dark cloud which once 
overshadowed this beautiful quarter of the globe, when con- 

• Oration by President Maxcy, of Brown University. 



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sternation agitated the hearts of the inhabitants, war desolated 
our fields and buried our vales in blood; but the day-spring 
from on high, soon opened on us its glittering portals, the Angel 
of liberty descending, dropped on Washington's brow the 
wreath of victory, and stamped on American freedom the 
seal of omnipotence; they point us to Franklin, Washington, 
Lafayette and Jefferson as the great apostles of Liberty; even 
in our cradles our infant lips were taught to lisp their praises; 
when we were told that the fire oi freedom which they had 
here lighted up, was disseminating its healthful influence over 
the whole world, and that tyranny and oppression must be 
driven from the earth. Such was the school of liberty and hu^ 
man rights in which we were educated, and in which, under 
the regulating influence of divine truth and love, those princi- 
ples were embraced which are embodied in our association. 
Anti-slavery principles have already received the sanction of 
names, the most illustrious in the annals of time: These were 
the principles which moved Lafaj^ette, to emancipate his slaves 
in the colony of Cayenne; which influenced Washington, on his 
dying bed, to give freedom to his slaves; which caused Ran- 
dolph, in the solemn hour of death, to call upon men to bear 
witness, that it was his last and most sacred injunction, that 
his slaves should go free: These were the principles which 
placed Franklin at the head of the Abolition Society in Phila- 
delphia, fifty years ago; and about the same time, produced 
the abolition of slavery in the middle and northern States of 
our country; and more recently in the colonies of Austria, 
Prussia and England. These principles made the illustrious 
Jefferson tremble for his country, when he reflected that God 
is just, and that his justice will not sleep for ever. By virtue 
of these principles we enjoy liberty and the pursuit of happi- 
ness, and by virtue of the same principles, the cause of liberty 
and human rights, is now diffusing itself throughout the civil- 
ized world. These were the principles which delivered the 
Israelites from bondage in P^gypt, and which were most beau- 
tifully exemplified in the life and doctrines of Him, who came 
to break every yoke, and set the oppressed free. But not- 
withstanding we are encompassed with such a cloud of wit- 
nesses, to the excellency of these principles, and also the 
general admission of their truth " in the abstract," yet the 



people of this highly favoured, and highly professing country, 
still tolerate and uphold a system of oppression, which utterly 
excludes one-sixth part of our entire population, from the 
enjoyment of the blessings which those principles were 
designed to secure, and reduces them to a level, in condition, 
with brute beasts ; regarding them as articles of Cummerce, 
and withholding from them all the rights and privilei.es which 
God, in mercy designed for his rational children. The object 
of our association is, by the benign influence of light and love, 
to awaken the attention and the conscience of the people, (and 
especially of those who profess to hope for a seat at the right 
hand of the King Eternal, when he shall come in his glory, 
and all the holy angels with him; when the criterion of separa- 
tion will be, the having or not having administered to the 
wants of the least of his flock,) to a sense of the injustice, the 
cruelties and the sufierings which we are inflicting upon our 
unfortunate fellow countrymen, with no better plea, than that 
their parents having been stolen and robbed before them, we 
claim the right to visit not the sins, but the sufferings of the 
parents upon the children. 

in presenting ourselves before the world, as the advocates 
of the rights of our oppressed fellow countrymen, we have 
been charged with pursuing measures calculated to destroy 
the union of our country. We believe this charge originated 
with our enemies, who do not themselves believe it is true; 
and that it was made for the purpose of creating a prejudice 
against us, in order to retard the progress of the holy cause in 
which we are engaged; the success of which is eminently 
calctilated to establish the union of the States more perma- 
nently, on a basii which God will approve and crown with his 
blessing. We regard the continued union of the States, as 
essential to our individual and national welfare. Should a dis- 
solution of the Ur.ion ever take place, frequent interruptions 
of that harmony and friendly intercourse, which are indispen- 
sable to our national prosperity would arise, and we should 
have reason to fear, that our fields would be fertilized with the 
blood of our sons : That man, therefore, who would trifle 
with the solidity of the Union, should be regarded as the 
enemy of his country; and he alone as a true patriot, who 
seeks to cement it upon the immutable principles of justice 
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and the rights of man. Never, since time began, have unin- 
spired men laid a foundation of civil government with fewer 
imperfections, or affording greater evidence of wisdom and 
virtue, than is exhibited in the Constitution of the United 
States, so far as it applies to those who enjoy its privileges 
and protection; but that the framers of that instrument felt that 
they were fallible men, and that in the progress of the 
government some corrections would be required, is demon- 
stated by the clause which provides for amendments; and no 
part of that instrument, affords a brighter illustration of their 
penetrating wisdom, than that which thus acknowledges their 
own conviction of its imperfections. Several amendments 
have already been made, and shall we be deemed traitors to 
the Union, even should we desire an amendment of the Con- 
stitution, extending the shield of protection alike over all those 
who are born in our country? 

Thus far we have been blessed under the administration of 
this government; and our attachment to the Union has been 
confirmed and strengthened by the success which has crowned 
with prosperity, those who under its protection pursue their 
own happiness. But in the midst of prosperity, we find a 
canker preying upon the vitals of the body politic, and threat- 
ening its ultimate dissolution; the Union of these States can 
never be secure, as long as the same Constitution and laws are 
designed for the government of a free and independent popu- 
lation in one section of the country, and of masters and slaves • 
in another section. Union to be harmonious and perpetual, 
must be based upon a similarity of condition and circum- 
stances, in the different sections of the country, and must be 
governed by the unchangeable principles of equal justice to all 
men. As long as a large proportion of the peoyjle of the coun- 
try are excluded from the enjoyment of their unalienable 
rights, and are held in servile and degrading bondage, the 
demoralizing tendency of such a system, with the domineering 
spirit which it is calculated to inspire, and the contrariety of 
interests which it creates, will forever prove a source of un- 
ceasing jealously and discord, as we have already had too much 
occasion to lament; and this is the gangrene which is far more 
likel}'^ than all other causes combined, to work a dissolution of 
the union of these Slates. To render the Union safe and per- 



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petual, we would incorporate into the body politic, tlie entire 
population of the country; we would extend equally over all 
the protection and privileges of the government; and by all 
reasonable means, promote the universal diffusion of literary, 
moral and religious instruction; that all might be prepared, 
wisely to enjoy freedom and happiness, and feel it to be their 
individual interest to add strength and stability to our free 
institutions. 

The abolition of slavery, which our opponents have repre- 
sented as a monster, that ten millions of freemen would be un- 
able to manage, is, when rightly understood, simply a cessation 
from cruelty, oppression, pollution and robbery. It is not to 
remove the labouring population of the South from the service 
of their masters; — it is not to turn them loose to beg, steal or 
starve; — it is not to arm them with a spirit of revenge, or to 
give them a license to deluge the land with blood; — it is not 
to elevate uneducated ignorant men to political power, or to 
an equality of rank in social society; but it is to abolish that 
iniquitous system, which novv holds two and a half millions of 
the American people as propertj', and treats them as cattle. 
It is to take men from the condition of slaves, driven to their 
toil by the lash of the whip, and to place them in that of free 
hired labourers, led on to their duty by encouragement, hope 
and reward; — it is to substitute for the pains of unremunerated 
servitude, the sweet assurance that the proceeds of their labour 
will be shared with those they love; — it is by education and 
by a moral and religious influence, aided by the wholesome 
restraints of law, to elevate those that are now degraded by 
oppression, above the practice of vice or the commission of 
crime: — it is to render the marriage covenant between those 
who voluntarily enter into it, sacred and inviolable; and thus 
to put an end to those heart-rending separations, and that flood 
of licentiousness, which are now a disgrace to the American 
name; — it is to abolish those fears of servile insurrection, 
which render the South so tremulous and sensitive at the men- 
tion of slavery; — it is, finally, to give to our suffering fellow 
heirs of immortality, the written testimony of the love and 
the mercy of God, in Christ Jesus our Lord; and to open a 
field for Christian labours, among two millions of heathen at 
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These are our principles, and this the object for which our 
Institution is founded. We would frown upon every attempt 
or every thought having reference to any other than purely 
mild and peaceable means; under the banner of the Prince of 
Peace alone, do we engage in this holy cause; under the 
guidance of the Spirit of peace alone, will we seek the accom- 
plishment of our purposes. It is the preservation of the peace, 
union and prosperity of our country which we love, and a 
desire to promote the cause of human liberty and happiness, 
and the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom among men, 
which urge us to plead with our countrymen, the cause of the 
deeply injured and long suffering children of oppression. 

Some have expressed surprise, tliat the purity of our princi- 
ples has obtained the support of so few of the most distin- 
guished men in our country; while so many of the world's 
honourables are found in the ranks of our opponents. We do 
not regard this as a subject of wonder, because we are per- 
suaded, that those who, like the proud Pharisee, glory in the 
distinction which enables them to thank God that they are 
not as other men are, will ever be found in bitter hostility to 
our Association: yet we have cause to bless the Supreme Ruler 
of the Universe, that since the formation of the New England 
Anti-Slavery Society by ten individuals, about the first of 
the year 1832, tens of thousands have enlisted in the same 
rightous cause, exhibiting a phalanx of moral energy and 
worth, such as we believe was never before united in a single 
object; — a national Anti-Slavery Society has been organized, 
with about 250 auxiliaries, scattered over thirteen States of 
the Union; and we are encouraged to believe, that this blessed 
cause is destined as an instrument in the hands of our Hea- 
venly Father, to awaken the Christian church from its le- 
thargy; to lead it away from its time-serving policy; to purify 
it from the doctrine of political expediency; and to promote 
its establishment upon the unchangeable principles promul- 
gated by its blessed Head; and finall}', to unite the moral 
power of the whole nation, in asserting the right of ihe 
oppressed to go free. We believe the day is near at hand, 
when this glorious consummation will be fully realized; when 
the manacles of the slave shall fall to the ground; the obstacles 
to the spread of the Gospel shall be done away, and angels 



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will renew the triumphant song, " Glory to God, in the 
highest; on earth, peace and good will to men." 

The last anniversary of the National Society, was to those of 
us who attended it, a season of the highest encouragement; it 
was peculiarly gratifying to witness the uniform and heartfelt 
solicitude, to place the entire population of our country in a 
condition in which there will be no obstacle to their intellec- 
tual, moral and religious instruction. The remarkable libe- 
rality, with which the friends of the cause contrilnite of their 
earthly substance, to promote the restoration of violated 
rights, affords the most encouraging evidence, that they have 
enlisted their whole souls in the blessed work, and gives full 
assurance, that they will never falter, until the last chain of 
slavery shall be broken. 

Commending our cause to "the God of the spirits of all 
flesh, who hath made of one blood, all nations of men to 
dwell upon tlie face of the earth," we invite the zealous and 
active co-operation of all who love the Lord Jesus Christ, and 
those whom he came to seek and to save. 



APPENDIX. 



The number of slaves in the United States, is computed at 
two and a quarter millions. The number in the districts 
under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress, is about thirty- 
thousand. 

The number of children annually born in the United States, 
and subjected to involuntary servitude, is one hundred and 
fifty thousand, or four hundred every twenty-four hours. 

A slave is a man, who is endowed by his Creator with the 
unalienable right of enjoying life, liberty and the pursuit of 
happiness. He is called a slave, because he is unrighteously- 
robbed of his rights, and reduced, with few exceptions, to a 
level in condition with brute beasts. 

The servitude to which slaves are subjected is so grievous 
to be borne, and such a gross outrage upon humanity, that the 
oppressors dare not allow them to be taught to read, in conse- 
quence of which, we behold one sixth of the population of this 
professing Christian country, in such a degraded condition, 
that they are not permitted to read the Bible. 

The annual increase of the slave population is computed at 
seventy-five thousand; these go to supply the market, which 
is kept brisk by the progress of settlement in the new States. 

The increasing demand for labour requires all the supply- 
afforded by natural increase and by European immigration. 

The death of forty thousand slaves by cholera in one year, 
so cut off the supply for the market, that the price advanced 
full twenty-five per cent: whence we infer, that the removal 
of forty thousand labourers, from the slave States, in a year, 
must not only advance the price, but also greatly increase the 
temptation to smuggle in fresh victims from Africa, and ob- 
struct the progress of manumissions, whether the removal was 
effected by cholera or colonization. 

One-sixth part of all the women in the United States, 
although they have fathers and husbands, are claimed as the 
property of other men, and have no protection. Licentious- 
ness and amalgamation are the natural and certain result of 
such a state of things. 

The Airican slave trade, is declared by the laws of the gene- 
ral government to be piracy, and is punishable with death. 
The American slave trade, extensively carried on in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, receives from the general government the 
same protection as the trade in horses and chattels. 



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The actual sale of human beings in the United States to the 
highest bidder, is computed to amount to twenty-five mil- 
lions of dollars annually. 

Before the Colon izntion Society was organized, it was very 
common for slaveholders on their dying beds to emancipate 
their slaves; but since the scheme of expatriation has been got 
up, few have been willing in a dying hour, to incur the dread- 
ful responsibility of banishing those whom they had already 
loo deeply injured, from the land of their birth. 

We believe that a large majority of the supporters of the 
colonization policy, think that they are engaged in a good 
work; consequently, we hope that a more full investigation of 
the subject, in all its relations and bearings, will bring them to 
act with us, in promoting the cause of universal freedom, with 
out the condition of expatriation. 

As Christians, the American people believe that everj'^ man 
is endowed by his Creator with the unalienable right of nour- 
ishing and protecting his wife and ciiildren. As a slavehold- 
ing nation, we deny the exercise of this right to a large portion 
of our fellow countrymen. 

As Christians, we believe that in all things, we should do 
unto others as we would have them do unto us. As slave- 
holders, we do unto others in all things, precisely what we 
would not have them do unto us. 

As Christians, if we were going down from Jerusalem to 
Jericho, and saw one in the hands of robbers, we would have 
compassion on him, and do all that vvas in our power to relieve 
him; as the supporters of slavery, we pass b}'^ on the other 
side. 

As Christians, if a poor beggar were laid at our gate, de- 
siring the crumbs which fall from our tables, we would admin- 
ister to his wants; as the apologists for the continuance of 
slaver}'', we leave him to perish in hopeless despair. 

Memorials, addressed to the churches, and to ecclesiastical 
bodies, should be circulated and receive the signature of every 
individual, who wishes to see the Christian church purified 
from the great abomination of slavery, with all its odious ap- 
pendages; that the Church may be induced to set an example 
in truth and righteousness, such as she would wish the world 
to follow. 

Let the Church be called upon, not merely to give freedom 
to the slave, but to " receive him, not now as a servant, but 
above a servant, as a brother beloved;" seeing he was created 
in the image of God, and is a candidate for a crown of un- 
fading glory. 



TREASUREE^'S REPORT. 



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DAVID MANDEVILLE, TREASURER, TNT ACCOUNT WITH THE 
PHILADELPHIA ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. 

1834. Dr. 

6 mo. 4, To Balance from preceding- Treasurer, 
Admission fees of eig-ht members. 
Donations from sundry persons. 
Admission fees, - - . . . 
Contribution at Musical Fund Hall, 
Monthly contribution, - - - - 

Admission fees of two members, 
Contributions rec'd by Joshua Coffin, - 

Ditto ditto 

Admission fees of three members, 
Monthly contribution, - - . - 
Admission fees of two members. 
Donation collected by Thomas Shipley, 
Ann. sub'ption p'd in by Ch. C. Jackson, 
" 4, Donation at Musical Fund Hall, 

$267 82^ 

1834. Cr. 

8 mo. 26, By Cash paid Joseph S. Gibbons for Books, 

Stationary, &c. - - - - $ 8 25 

" 30, Cash paid Thomas Town for printing-, - 20 10 

10 mo. 8, Cash paid Ed. Hopper's bill for Room, &c. 4 25 
12 mo. 13, Cash paid Treasurer of Pennsylv'a Aboli- 
tion Society for 1 q'ter's rent of Hall, 15 75 
1835. 

2 mo. 18, Cash paid Draft of Thomas Shipley as 
Chairm'n of Board of Managers, 

" Cash paid to Joshua Coffin, - - . 

3 mo. 22, Cash paid Mentz & Son, for a book, 
" 28, Cash paid Sam'l F Troth, for the use of 

the Hall of Pharmacy, . . - 
6 mo. 14, Cash paid Donation to the American Anti- 
Slavery Society, - - . - 
" Cash paid P. G. Williams, New York, for 

Tracts, &c., per T. Shipley, - 

6 mo. 8, Cash paid V/m. P. Gibbons, for printing 
1500 copies of Society's Address, - 41 38 

" Cash paid T. E. Chapman, for covers for 

Society's Address, - - - - 

7 mo. 4, Cash paid for Musical Fund Hall, - 
Balance due the Society, - 

$267 82^ 



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To the Board of Managers of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society. 
The Committee appointed to examine the Account of the late Trea.'?urer, respectfully report. 
That they have examined ids Accimnts, rnd on comparing the vou'-.her?, fird ihem co-rect: aid 
that the wliole amount to be paid into tl 3 hands of the present Treasurer, tine to the Society, is 
$10 71 1-2. EDWIN P. ' TLEE, > CommilleP 

DILLWYN i-ARRISH, \ ^"'""""S*- 
7 month, Wth, 1835. 



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